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Schiller grew up in a very religious Protestant family and spent much of his youth studying the Bible, which would later influence his writing for the theatre. His father was away in the Seven Years' War when Friedrich was born. He was named after king Frederick the Great, but he was called Fritz by nearly everyone.
Although the letters are represented as a fiction, the Theosophy of Julius, which is the centerpiece of the correspondence, clearly reflects the philosophical outlook of the young Schiller. The role of Raphael was assumed by Schiller’s friend Christian Gottfried Körner.
Schiller’s support of the Protestant cause was nominal rather than heartfelt; he was no Christian, but man of the enlightenment, a self-styled “citizen of the world.” He wrote at the cusp of an era in which a new kind of European universalism would be tested and found wanting.
Apr 21, 2017 · Friedrich Schiller. Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) is best known for his immense influence on German literature. In his relatively short life, he authored an extraordinary series of dramas, including The Robbers, Maria Stuart, and the trilogy Wallenstein.
Jan 1, 2023 · His father, Johann Caspar Schiller (1723–1796), served in the Seven Years’ War and rose from ensign in 1745, to army medic in 1753, to lieutenant in 1758, to captain in 1767, finally retiring from the Württembergian army in 1785, at which time he was appointed by the duke to supervise the botanical gardens at the residence in Ludwigsburg ...
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and charitable enthusiasts who have claimed Schiller as inherently a good Christian. Schlurick, for instance, in his Schiller und die Bibel, says: "But his heart was richly im-pregnated with the spirit of the Bible and of Christianity." And Roscher, in his Geistliche Gedanken eines National-okonoms, expresses the opinion that Schiller "needed ...
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Oct 26, 2006 · If even involuntary pangs force themselves upon the Christian and wise man (for is he less a human being?), yet will he resolve the sensations of his dissolving frame into happiness:— The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger and defies its point.
